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Scars, Survivors, and Jewish Memory about the Soviet Union: New Readings, New Theories - Alice Nakhimovsky. The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck: Eight Jewish Lives under Stalin. Boston: Academic Publishers, 2023. viii, 223 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $129.00, hard bound. - Marat Grinberg. The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity between the Lines. The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2023. ix, 258 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $40.00, paper.

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Alice Nakhimovsky. The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck: Eight Jewish Lives under Stalin. Boston: Academic Publishers, 2023. viii, 223 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $129.00, hard bound.
Marat Grinberg. The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity between the Lines. The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2023. ix, 258 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $40.00, paper.

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Slavic Review , Volume 83 , Issue 2 , Summer 2024 , pp. 344 - 348
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11 Mikhail Beizer and Ann Komaromi are expecting to publish a book on Jewish refusniks in Soviet Russia with Toronto University Press in 2024.

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